Two miku is singing on both left and right of your ears while an entire orchestra is surrounding you playing all this 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 tango rhythm... Inside a hole.
My mom knows I’m interested in vocaloid and stuff like that and sometimes I occasionally show her songs that I think sounds good, she’s pretty open minded to the whole thing and finds it interesting herself. But when I showed her this song her exact words were “OH these are one of those songs you can Mexican salsa dance to!” After those words made it into my ears I can never unhear that phrase.
don't see any comments about this, but for headphone listeners, a really cool aspect of this song is that it sounds like all the instruments are behind you, and with the mikus to both of your sides, it feels like you're being edged forward, pushed into the hole. fucking awesome
This is my bird’s favorite song. She normally doesn’t like music but this song has her dancing back and forth. It also calms her down when she’s having “night frights”
They're the equivalent of sirens in the spirit world, they'll promise a paradise for you, instead they'll bring you into a hellscape you can never escape.
My heart is dying the resurrecting itself the leaping out of my chest and dancing, while my organs evaporate and my skeleton walks to my fridge AND SIPS A WHOLE CAN OF MONSTER ENERGY AND MILK THE RUNS TO THE STORE TO GET MORE WHILE DOING THE TANGO. (The loud part came)
Vocaloids are voices that replace the need to sing so that the artist can limit itself to composing. And yet It's like I can hear Kikuo's distinct voice
@@Fufu_log when an artist sings, they have to train their vocals, remember the lyrics, think about how their voice sounds, hit the right notes and manipulate accurately their voices the way that the composer wants. with vocaloid it's easier because there's no training, its just editing and has an instant result. for exemple if you look at kikuohana, Hanatan's voice probably took years to sound this way and she used to do Opera if i understood well, she manipulates her voice well and has an amazing range! She was also probably under Kikuo's directing so taking the time to communicate plus recording and everything most likely took a lot of time, especially if u take in account that Kikuo takes at least a year to produce a vocaloid album.
Bruh so you think using VOCALOID was easier than just singing? Oh hell no it takes a lot of effort, time, talent and experience. You make it sound as if the programm would just tune itself bruh it's more than typing lyrics!
I know most people think this song is about depression and suicide and standard kikuo stuff, but I personally think this is about addiction Falling deeper and deeper into the hole of dependency, slowly going mad as you descend further down. Maybe you find some other tortured souls like you along the way, and you drag each other further in. Soon, you realize there's truly no escape, and you succumb to this hole dwelling life
it's all perspective, I think it's a metaphor for the helplessness we feel when we are alone, and how we all long for normal lives, and how far we'd go to create that normalcy. How we see our lives spiral downwards in front of our very eyes but we pay no attention to it because we're not alone. We are now exposed to everyone's misery on the daily, thus creating the facade that all the bad in our lives cannot be helped and it's normal. We seek unison in hardship, but divide ourselves for the greater good, and it's a hole we cannot let ourselves out of, instead we've embraced it, and continue to let it change us
I thought that this song was about people who found themselves at the very bottom of their lives (for example, about beggars and homeless people) who are trying to somehow survive, having practically nothing, and who can not get out of this hole in any way, forced to drag such an existence until death. But I like your theory more
especially the tuning on vocals and the amount of creative ways kikuo uses miku to the advantage of the song, its insane how they are able to do this so well, some long time vocaloid producer cant even tune their vocals to sound natural and kikuo's out here literally using her as both a vocal and an instrument
This picture goes perfectly with the song, i dont know why no one has mentioned it, but you can clearly see shapes, animals? legs? eyes? theyre there but none of the are conjoined correctly, you recognize them but you cant focus on a single one, its as if yore eye is being repelled by the main pictute itself, and instead youre only following the geometry, a spiraling mess that is slowly creeping into a hole. its a dope picture
This song is scariest when one headphone doesn't work so you only hear one part of the song and the empty voids of the other voice fills you with anxiety
It's impressive the way Kikuo uses shortcomings of the vocaloid program to his advantage, creating an atmosphere like this by drenching Miku in vocal effects
@@_oliver_3593 I'm extremely late, but I believe OP was talking about the fact that as of today, it is pretty hard to produce natural singing voices using Vocaloid software. While some extremely talented producers can make extremely realistic songs (MitchieM for example) most of the time the results sound unnatural. Kikuo however uses the robotic sound and flow to create an unsettling athmosphere, aided by effects placed on the final song. (Another producer that does this well is PinocchioP) I'm pretty confident in my english, but it isn't my first language so please excuse any possible mistakes.
@@fabulousotaku1157 Why would you even put an ESL disclaimer on such a well articulated youtube comment. This is more sophisticated than 90% of youtube comments anyway XD
I love how as the song progresses the 'it's so wrong, so wrong' gets quieter and quieter but the 'we're so lonely' stays strong, as the characters in the song feel less about how wrong it is to bring others down and only care about their loneliness.
I think its mostly about embracing your own faults and (possibly manic?) desires. i feel like this is told from the perspective of either lovers or good friends , that find others like them and therefore abandoning morals and giving into dark desires spiraling deeper into madness. since the first lines were frustrated about god an the world (normality?). so the worries melting away and the justification getting stronger would make sense. Edit: also , since its called hole-dwelling i guess that these things were lived out in secret at first , and now they're all those people have after its ruined their lives? "we can't/won't escape?"
@@jayemover_16 Maybe a religion or a cult with abhorrent practices becoming successful?... Edit: Looking at all the lyrics again I am like 99% sure this is about a cult recruiting two new people and them getting completely sucked into the madness.
@@Syrieana Probably, but I relate it to a book series I'm writing, in which people are dragged into an insane asylum by the residents. Coincidentally, it started with two people.
If anyone wants to know, the reason why this song gives you a beach or sea vibe is because of the steel pans in the background, and steel pans are normally used in tropical places, and they come from Trinidad and Tobago. You can hear it clearly at 4:19.
Also the use of tango/samba dance rhythms creates an undulating and cyclical pattern to the vocalization and music which feels like waves of rhythm to our ears. Also there’s the reverb added to the voice that feels like audio passing thru water or walls of some kind so you recognize it as “not sounds waves they air but something thicker”.
I tried to play this on violin once, got about 30 seconds in and though: “There’s another 5 minutes of this insane piece. I love it, but I’m not sure I can do this.”
Kikuo's addition of the steel pan as a Caribbean person really is a welcoming surprise here we're used to it being played lively and upbeat so I was glad that it was added to add a creepy atmosphere to the song
I get it. It feels like Neptune came alive for a couple minutes to remind us that there was a reason sailors prayed for a safe voyage across the ocean while the kids had fun in the shallows
Kikuo has the amazing power of perfectly describing depression with his lyrics. When you’re depressed, you get stuck in this hole where you can’t bear the live you’re living but you also know you can never achieve the ideal life you’ve built in your head. You befriend others with the same struggles because you understand each other, and you don’t feel so alone, but if none of you is trying to improve all a relationship like that does is drag you all further down…
I remember being in a relationship like that (despite never being diagnosed with a mental illness or anything like that) and I can speak with experience when I say that this shit can fucken hurt sometimes. If you're going to befriend someone with the same struggles, please try to lift each other up and help each other out, maybe even get help for yourself and the other. There are people out there that- although they may _never_ understand what your going through- care about you tons. Always remember you deserve to be loved and appreciated, and you're all worth so much more than you give yourselves credit for
I actually had something like that a while back with a friend group. I’ll be honest the good times were great, but nobody was doing anything to improve anything, and eventually everything broke. Wasn’t a fun experience, but it taught me an important lesson, which is the one you talked about.
I love all of Kikuo's music, but this song is their real masterpiece in my opinion. The heavy effects on the music and Miku (especially her "drowning" scream); the way some instruments trail off into lower notes, like a plane in a tailspin; the s t e e l d r u m s; the way some instruments and voices play on only one side of your headphones; the heavy, pounding bass underlying it all; the breathing at the end; and the melody and harmony that drags you under all the while. I can't articulate it very well but this song is like nothing else I've ever heard.
It's also strangely addicting. The drums and the scream are what tie it together for me, and that somewhat happy tune that's in the background constantly. Everything sounds like it echoes.
Under the sea, deep under the sea, you fall and fall, you don't stop falling, you arrive in hell but don't stop falling, there is only darkness after this point and yet you still know that you're falling, even when you lose all ability to comprehend what's happening you still subconsciously know that you're falling. UNDA THA SEA
The addition of the steelpans is actually what makes this sound creepier, as someone from the Caribbean it actually caught me off guard when I heard it but it adds that extra bit of a creepy atmosphere
My favorite thing about this artist is just the way that they utilize both old, underutilized instruments and new technology such as a high production and Vocaloids into their music. It sounds so alien yet familiar like a trap trying to lure you in with familiar sites and smells which is why I think they're more horror themed songs are my favorites. They give me the chills
@@itsjustdewieman I also love how he can have low-instrumental, more quiet songs as well. My personal favourite of this style is “The day I was absent from school.” Its very lonely sounding but i can’t get enough of it. Kikuo for life
I JUST realised that at 5:17 there are two voices tatata-ing, one in the left ear and one in the right, but then at 5:25 there is a breath and the voice in the right ear dissappears and is replaced with steel pans, and then at 5:35 there is a second breath, and the second dissappears also, leaving no more voices.... I'm not sure what it means.... But it's there.... And it's such a small detail, and it's so clever, and I love it. Edit: are the babies dying out??? The smol mikus??? Do they be taking their final breath?? But they're so cute😭
I love how this song slowly gets louder and faster and more voices as well as using a lot of descending notes one after the other , and even using more unique instruments further into the song gives the impression like you’re falling deeper into a hole and you start seeing more scary and surreal things the deeper you go
You know the whole light at the end of the tunnel analogy? I think this is kind of like that, but the tunnel is never ending and the light is tauntingly unreachable
i love this response, and i would like to add my own thoughts. i think of it more as a lie, that you were told that there would be light at the end of the tunnel and there would be happiness, as well as clarity, but there ends up being no light. just an endless hole where instead of becoming more light and clear (as in mentally understandable; clarification), everything just becomes darker and darker and more jumbled as you continue to fall down a rabbit hole of madness, along with other victims and lured (the people who told you there would be light). this is why the picture gets darker towards the center, and why nothing in the spiral is clear or identifiable. the mind has de-evolved into a state where everything is one and all it wants is more and more and more. ANYWAY i just fell into a deep philosophical haze ahaha
If you listen this song while wearing earphones, you’ll realize that this is a 3D song whose voice and whispers come from both sides of the earphones ...
Renno Wataru You mean there’s panning? That’s not a particularly groundbreaking or innovative technique. Done all the time. I’ll say this though, it’s sounds great when done well.
(As someone with Japanese as their first language) I always interpreted this song as a sort of a toxic co-morbid relationship. There’s a LOT of emphasis on “we” “us” and “you” in this song, not “me” or “I” so it’s like a community (the people in the hole already) is talking to you, and the way this song is written, it uses a lot of casual Japanese, insinuating they’re trying to be friendly and convince you that you guys are an equal, the same, so they’re inviting you to be a part of “the hole”. I think this song is about what it’s like when social rejects make a community, telling eachother that there’s no point in trying to live outside of the “hole” and should just give up and keep falling down the hole. Basically it’s about a toxic echo chamber and how they can drag you down with them. Edit: I know it’s a weird example, but browsing incel forums is an eerily similar experience to listening to the lyrics on this song. them isolating from “normies” and spouting toxic and self deprecating nonsense in their echo chamber to pull people further into inceldom with their crazy rhetoric. Edit 2: I also think the distorted ocean music symbolizes that "the hole" is these people's twisted "paradise" or "oasis", if you will. But simultaneously they are drowning in their own paradise (as heard with miku's drowning scream)
The third paragraph is exactly what I couldn't put into words, though, I interpereted it more as two young kids in that situation philoshising about life in that stage. Though I'm more hopefull because "we can't be in this world and we can't be in this world" means they don't feel at home in either so they might move on from the hole when they get better.
oh i love this interpretation! i often don’t like the interpretations of a lot of kikuo songs because they’re often too shallow or too focused on making a strict timelined “story” to them, but i think this really hits the nail on the head of what it could be. good one! :D
Maybe that was their intention to do that. Maybe they wanted to draw a confuseing picture on purpouse. Maybe they wanted to make it in a way that everyone sees something differently in it.
this song could b about about toxic relationships in general. two miserable people exacerbating their sadness together, it happens all the time in friendships or relationships. the image looks like a spiraling river of styx, kind of similar to how it was portrayed in disney's hercules. they feel neither alive nor dead and their emotions are so intense that they can't always identify them. toxic people often want others to feel the same sadness and loneliness as they do, that's why they're always trying to drag someone else down with them. it's an endless negative feedback loop, but that's all they're familiar with.
as someone with several chronic sleep disorders (insomnia, narcolepsy) who has incredibly vivid dreams and maladaptive daydreams, and has a hard time connecting to the real world, this song sounds like my daily life. I’m floating through, in a half catatonic state, barely registering anything around me and seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. My mind, the people inside it, and sleep are calling me in the back of my head at all times. During the night, the only time I’m wide awake, my thoughts pull me in and drag me to my knees. It’s a spiral. I’m trapped here.
I hope you find a healthy way to cope with that, and if you wanna rant, i am very open to listening/reading it, i like reading/listening to people's trauma/problems-
How do you have both insomnia and narcolepsy at the same time?! That sucks! I hope you manage to get some pills that fix it or at least something that calms it down. 1812 16th of August 2024
@@helenaborgespeixoto7598 I’ve been on pills since childhood and they do help. they kind of affect each other bc I sleep too much during the day to be able to sleep at night and not sleeping at night makes me sleepy during the day
(Edited) I want to share this with you: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 You are not alone, there is hope ✞♡
listening to this with headphones, it feels like there's multiple mikus all convincing me to fall into the hole with them because of how the music alternates from one ear to other, like they're all around me asking me to join. I feel a lot of the spite and gluttony of being in a hole-dwelling life like I used to when I listen to this, and it comforts me.
This is one of the most difficult songs to make an interpretation due all the japanese culture and budism references so I Made a research At first It describes two people and they somehow end dying, that it's a fact because they mentioned they fell in "Naraka" after. that one place that in budism, when someone is a Bad person in life is send to Some type of "Hell" when death comes and it's appareance is in form of network of CAVES and there are some monsters that tortures the ones that fall there(remember the song it's called pitiful cave) When the songs says "You and me, forever and always, be the same" it means they Will be trapped in Naraka forever and probably they know that they two were bad people and they are not gonna change They saw more people fall too, as the lyrics said Then literaly the song is about the experience of falling and being trapped in the hell of budism lore (remember that a great parcentage of japanese people are into budism and shintoism)
It could be a metaphor, using being trapped in Naraka and comparing it to a toxic relationship. Pulling other people into your toxicity. The reason I think so is because Kikuo usually makes songs about the dark side of peoples minds. So that would fit with the message they put in other songs
So i was qurious and looked deeper in to Naraka's.İ'm in complete shock.İm NOT hating on Budism,i respect all religions.But the things i read were blood curdling.İ will not be able to sleep tonight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)#:~:text=Naraka%20(Sanskrit%3A%20%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%3B%20Pali,%22)%20or%20%22purgatory%22.&text=Physically%2C%20Narakas%20are%20thought%20of,human%20world)%20into%20the%20earth. This is where i read it.Good Luck
I would like to say that the "forever" part doesn't necessarily mean for all eternity but because of how the deeper levels of naraka work that for a person to be released from that hell may take millions if years (the kalpa measurement system they used) and it seems like an eternity to those who are suffering.
@@chelronin7843 as another comments theory went- Instead of one pulling the other, they're just pulling each other down. So a toxic relationship falling farther into despair. Life's been hard on both of them and they turned to each other, but the problem is they arent the best "support pillars" for one another. They lie to themselves for a while that everything is okay, that they're besties, and that their relationship is healthy etc. But eventually ig they finally admit that it is "wrong" (as kind of stated in one lyric). But they continue falling bc they be "so lonely", and they think it's impossible to get to a better place. This also goes along with a more recent reply in this thread about how they dont actually have to be "falling forever"/ "in hell forever", but it seems that way.
Damn, this was the exact song that kept me feeling anxious. This is the one and only song that left me with goosebumps throughout the entire listen. Kikuo is a brilliant producer. His main feature is the presentation of unusual, harsh, depressing thoughts, but damn, the way he presents it makes me sit without thinking for many minutes. With his works he was able to create worlds in which there would never be truth. But nowhere else can there be as many guesses, secrets and thoughts as in Kikuo’s songs.
I feel like I'm weightless, being wrapped up in bubbles and pulled downwards to drown in an abyss as the song carries on. This song is pure magic. Kikuo never disappoints
What a beautiful time to live in, when I can effortlessly listen to music made by a completely different culture, speaking a fundamentally different language on the other side of the planet.
You are one the best horror music creators I've ever witnessed ever. The idea of being forced to meld with thousands of different unrecognizable beings, having your conciousness split apart and unable to even understand or fully comprehend anything anymore, slowly drifting untill "you" no longer exist. Junji Ito levels of scary. Whats worse is they seem to be celebrating their lonely chaotic existence, displaying an unstable denial, forced to embrace it and revel in the pain.
The first part literally describes the Ancient Greeks "afterlife": everybody was nobody, everybody melted to be a mass of indistinguishable souls. Nobody was someone, because what they were was gone the moment they died.
as someone who is an extreme introvert, this song feels like the absolute insanity that comes from extreme isolation. Filtering everyone out, only letting in those who let you self destruct. Maybe even just the way people talk to themselves after this extreme isolation, going deeper and deeper into the loneliness that you cant tell whats real or not. "were the same, the same, the same, are we not?" makes me think that its one person who has madeup friends, a madeup world, that keeps beckoning them back into the hole. Back into isolation. Like its so much better to be alone than anything else.
I’ve recently been dangerously obsessed with this song to the point that I think I’ve spent about 6-7 hours every day listening to it on repeat. It’s too good.
Kikuo reminds me of Junji Ito. Their music is like, unsettling but not because of creepy music or anything. It sounds innocent but there's always this darkness in there. And Junji Ito makes stuff creepy by presenting everyday things that have this other worldly twist. I'd love if they collaborated someday like for a music video.
I agree, the steel drums add a whole 'nother level to the song, I feel like I would be less kikou without them tbh, especially at 4:07 when the beat drops and miku screams, it makes me feel an emotion I've never felt before, like I'm dancing with a ghost in a well, the steel drums are an amazing touch in this peice of art
I like to think that, because a lot of of phrases in the song are quieter the second time they're said, it's indicative of an echo rather than a second person speaking. Because the narrator/singer is in a hole, their voice is echoing. But really, they're all alone.
@@sankyumiku and eventually , they find a patch of water , which seems to be rising . It seems to be an escape method , but as the water rises above their head , they realize that the water is pulling them further down , rather than up .
I love how this song feels like you are constantly falling, since it uses a lot of descending notes in a row and slowing-down rhytms. Constant panning and repeating words give illusion of nausiating spin, as well as occasional detune.
Listening to this many times made me realise that the song could be about how some Japanese workers live and how they might see each other as "friends" trapped inside the same "cave". I think of the cave as Japan itself or a bar where everyone goes to drink after work. Thinking more of the bar; since they can't escape their demanding jobs or Japan, they just drink more and more, going deeper into the hole in either debt or drunkness. Once they begin to be more open, they talk about their dreams that can't come true, how they feel, etc. Eventually, they discover their lives are quite alike and begin calling each other "friends" or "partners", then they start trying to drag more people into their "group" ("Are you one of us?"), or asking some friends for "secrets" ("What is the password for this world of holes?"); because more friends mean more oportunities to escape (have important contacts and you'll reach farther). In the end, they continue this "ritual" for many, many years, not reaching anywhere outside their simple lifes, just falling further inside the "cave". They keep drinking ("It's so wrong, so wrong") but they have no one else that would keep them company; even if they don't feel connected at all to each other ("It's so lonely, so lonely") and the only things they share are a shitty life.
I like to listen to this song whilst skateboarding because it reminds me that 1 pebble could end my existence edit: the pebble claimed me as a victim yesterday... rip my arm
Two miku is singing on both left and right of your ears while an entire orchestra is surrounding you playing all this 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 tango rhythm... Inside a hole.
I wouldn’t call it tango, but you’re beyond correct
@@beesindisguise5375 traumatizing tango
IF THERE"S NO ACCORDION, IT IS NOT TANGO (I'm joking, I don't know what identifies tango.).
Mortifying Marimba
Me who’s listening with only one working earbud: 👁👄👁
Kikuo is his own genre.
Willyhoo agreed
I strongly agree
Ye
So true
Yes
My mom knows I’m interested in vocaloid and stuff like that and sometimes I occasionally show her songs that I think sounds good, she’s pretty open minded to the whole thing and finds it interesting herself. But when I showed her this song her exact words were “OH these are one of those songs you can Mexican salsa dance to!” After those words made it into my ears I can never unhear that phrase.
when you’re hispanic and a weeb
@@tapphy2023 lol
Lmao 😭
bruh, my mom said vocaloid songs are creepy
@@Solisrite damnnnn
don't see any comments about this, but for headphone listeners, a really cool aspect of this song is that it sounds like all the instruments are behind you, and with the mikus to both of your sides, it feels like you're being edged forward, pushed into the hole. fucking awesome
Yep, Real
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THANK YOUUU. This song just randomly started playing while I put my new earbuds in and it’s a spiritual experience.
WOAH THATS A COOL WAY TO PUT IT "Pushed into the hole"!!!!! my mind is blown now
Wait wtf it ժօҽs like- I think it's behind me, wtf??
This is my bird’s favorite song. She normally doesn’t like music but this song has her dancing back and forth. It also calms her down when she’s having “night frights”
thats so wholesome i-
That’s so cute 😿
Awwwww :)
Your birb is amazing
your bird has good taste in musci OwO
Hachi: The vocaloid community has gotten stale
Kikuo: Sorry, what was that? Couldn't hear you over these s t e e l d r u m s
I really cant hear anymore. Those steel drums
@@MrPangulo007 spacedrum innit?
when did he say that?
@@MayuMayuShell Look up the song Sand Planet. It's a bittersweet piece about how the Vocaloid community as a whole has somewhat lost steam.
i vote we need more bass clarinet in vocaloid
I reject humanity.
I am going to live with the funky ghosts in the hole.
Fun fact!: If you look closely, those aren't ghosts nor any other creature. Just wacky and fun shapes and lines
@@unimear Doesn't mean there aren't any in the hole.
@@lisasanchez6071 funky ghosts getting funky with funkier lines
They're the equivalent of sirens in the spirit world, they'll promise a paradise for you, instead they'll bring you into a hellscape you can never escape.
@@notmitsukiyolol yep, we read the comments too. We surrender to hell.
本当にきくおさんが居る時代に生まれてよかった
耳の存在価値が自分の中で凄い上がりましたありがとうございます
Same here bro
real
same
same
same
i call this *TRAUMATIZING TANGO*
Cotton candy is *scarring synth*
@@steelstreqq yessss
Samba ;-;
Festival of the dark is *SCARRING SHUFFLE*
satanic samba
kikuo's songs makes me feel emotions that doesn't exist
Fallovrean
like my bones being to big for my skin
@@elmismismo6007 organs too ~big~ ~small~ uncomfortable for my body
well, they must exist bc ur feeling them
My heart is dying the resurrecting itself the leaping out of my chest and dancing, while my organs evaporate and my skeleton walks to my fridge AND SIPS A WHOLE CAN OF MONSTER ENERGY AND MILK THE RUNS TO THE STORE TO GET MORE WHILE DOING THE TANGO.
(The loud part came)
Vocaloids are voices that replace the need to sing so that the artist can limit itself to composing.
And yet It's like I can hear Kikuo's distinct voice
What do u mean when u said" limit themselves to composingg???"
@@Fufu_log probably meaning that the artist can focus more on putting the song together instead of worrying about the vocals or something
@@Fufu_log when an artist sings, they have to train their vocals, remember the lyrics, think about how their voice sounds, hit the right notes and manipulate accurately their voices the way that the composer wants. with vocaloid it's easier because there's no training, its just editing and has an instant result.
for exemple if you look at kikuohana, Hanatan's voice probably took years to sound this way and she used to do Opera if i understood well, she manipulates her voice well and has an amazing range!
She was also probably under Kikuo's directing so taking the time to communicate plus recording and everything most likely took a lot of time, especially if u take in account that Kikuo takes at least a year to produce a vocaloid album.
@@Vy-if3zd OOHHHHH DAMN THATS ALOT-
Bruh so you think using VOCALOID was easier than just singing? Oh hell no it takes a lot of effort, time, talent and experience. You make it sound as if the programm would just tune itself bruh it's more than typing lyrics!
I know most people think this song is about depression and suicide and standard kikuo stuff, but I personally think this is about addiction
Falling deeper and deeper into the hole of dependency, slowly going mad as you descend further down. Maybe you find some other tortured souls like you along the way, and you drag each other further in. Soon, you realize there's truly no escape, and you succumb to this hole dwelling life
That makes a lot of sense!
is it bad i relate to this
it's all perspective, I think it's a metaphor for the helplessness we feel when we are alone, and how we all long for normal lives, and how far we'd go to create that normalcy. How we see our lives spiral downwards in front of our very eyes but we pay no attention to it because we're not alone. We are now exposed to everyone's misery on the daily, thus creating the facade that all the bad in our lives cannot be helped and it's normal. We seek unison in hardship, but divide ourselves for the greater good, and it's a hole we cannot let ourselves out of, instead we've embraced it, and continue to let it change us
You can't convince me that this isn't just Uzumaki
I thought that this song was about people who found themselves at the very bottom of their lives (for example, about beggars and homeless people) who are trying to somehow survive, having practically nothing, and who can not get out of this hole in any way, forced to drag such an existence until death. But I like your theory more
Whoever says Miku is overrated has clearly never heard her being used by Kikuo-P
Kikuo is godly when he uses miku
especially the tuning on vocals and the amount of creative ways kikuo uses miku to the advantage of the song, its insane how they are able to do this so well, some long time vocaloid producer cant even tune their vocals to sound natural and kikuo's out here literally using her as both a vocal and an instrument
He knows how to use her voice very well!
Josuke 👀❤️
Personally she is overused, for me, her voice gets boring sometimes, but thank goodness some can use her differently (like this song).
this song doesnt even feel like its 6 mins long
Kikuo really just said f time
Wait I just realized it's 6 min omg
WAIT ITS 6 MINUTES LONG WOW
LOLLLL
6 MINUTES?!
This picture goes perfectly with the song, i dont know why no one has mentioned it, but you can clearly see shapes, animals? legs? eyes? theyre there but none of the are conjoined correctly, you recognize them but you cant focus on a single one, its as if yore eye is being repelled by the main pictute itself, and instead youre only following the geometry, a spiraling mess that is slowly creeping into a hole.
its a dope picture
_it's a groovy octopus disaster!_
The fact that you can't distinguish anything in the picture makes me feel like I have a stroke
ImTrash. Im so satisfying right now because your comment was what i thought.
how are people seeing limbs and animals? im just seeing random swirls
@@dirt4333 the eye and animal body parts. Like fish fins
The "samishii" is really really realistic, it sounds like Miku is giggling playfully a bit at the end of the word
and it’s ironic, because she’s basically saying lonely/loneliness
take yer headset out and there's the samishii gone.
@@basil.bagel. i thought it was lonely?
@@ilovecat_101😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
@@ilovecat_101 mb, i messed up the translation
This song is scariest when one headphone doesn't work so you only hear one part of the song and the empty voids of the other voice fills you with anxiety
SOMETIMES I LISTEN WITH ONLY ONE EARBUD AND IT SOUNDS SM DIFFERENT
@@nutballsheding8998 I FUCKING KNOW AND IT'S SCARY BECAUSE YOU'RE EXPECTING TO HEAR BOTH PARTS BUT ONLY ONE AND IT JUST-
I ALWAYS HEARD IT WITH ONE EARBUD 'CAUSE THE OTHER IS BROKEN AND I JUST LISTENED TO IT WITHOUT ANY AND IT SOUNDS SO DIFFERENT I-
My earphone only works on the right
I wonder what's happening in the other
Which side are you listening to?
Every time i listen to kikuo songs i feel brainwashed
*Welcome to the Kikuo Cult. We're pretty chill here, but be careful of that one guy selling cotton candy in the back.*
slow your roll LMAO I-
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
slow your roll *we have a dark festival once a year*
Be careful , we don’t want anyone to be *breaking things into pieces* now do we?
It's impressive the way Kikuo uses shortcomings of the vocaloid program to his advantage, creating an atmosphere like this by drenching Miku in vocal effects
zack snack what do mean by that if you don’t mind me asking
@@_oliver_3593 maybe they meant her scream?
@@_oliver_3593 I'm extremely late, but I believe OP was talking about the fact that as of today, it is pretty hard to produce natural singing voices using Vocaloid software. While some extremely talented producers can make extremely realistic songs (MitchieM for example) most of the time the results sound unnatural. Kikuo however uses the robotic sound and flow to create an unsettling athmosphere, aided by effects placed on the final song. (Another producer that does this well is PinocchioP)
I'm pretty confident in my english, but it isn't my first language so please excuse any possible mistakes.
@@fabulousotaku1157 You nailed exactly what I meant. Vocaloid voices are naturally uncanny and Kikuo embraces that instead of fighting it.
@@fabulousotaku1157 Why would you even put an ESL disclaimer on such a well articulated youtube comment. This is more sophisticated than 90% of youtube comments anyway XD
たくさんの積み木が、なめらかに削った木材の渦の中にカタンカタンと落ちていってるようですき
This is like the world's most depressing beach level theme
this is my favorite comment ever
JoJo vento aureo *Allow me to introduce myself*
@@swison1964 heh
@@swison1964 OUCH-
your avatar killed me
I didn't even realize this was 6 minutes long
Ikr? :"0
it should be longer tbh
6:09 LETS GOOOOO
*it feels like a week for some reason*
Wait it's 6 minutes long?!
I didn't realised
I forgot how terrifying Miku's liquid scream was
no because it scared the shit out of me the first time i heard it
I love t listen to it, it's cute🙃
@@nishanloffa3088 Same
this is a common accurance??
@@realjerma yes it happens all the time. sometimes it gets annoying tho
この曲、ミクが左側から歌ってることが多いけど西洋では｢悪魔は左耳から囁く｣らしい
Я-Русская, и скажу, что у нас тоже дьявол шепчет через левое ухо
Хорошо что у меня не сломан правый наушник…..
最後面白いw急に日本語ネイティブっぽいw@@olgaivanova6313
I love how as the song progresses the 'it's so wrong, so wrong' gets quieter and quieter but the 'we're so lonely' stays strong, as the characters in the song feel less about how wrong it is to bring others down and only care about their loneliness.
Star Light it also sounds like they must be getting further down the hole.
I think its mostly about embracing your own faults and (possibly manic?) desires.
i feel like this is told from the perspective of either lovers or good friends , that find others like them and therefore abandoning morals and giving into dark desires spiraling deeper into madness.
since the first lines were frustrated about god an the world (normality?).
so the worries melting away and the justification getting stronger would make sense.
Edit: also , since its called hole-dwelling i guess that these things were lived out in secret at first , and now they're all those people have after its ruined their lives?
"we can't/won't escape?"
Also it seems as if there are more people as the song goes on (from "the two of us show each other our dreams" to "we're all in this together")
@@jayemover_16 Maybe a religion or a cult with abhorrent practices becoming successful?...
Edit: Looking at all the lyrics again I am like 99% sure this is about a cult recruiting two new people and them getting completely sucked into the madness.
@@Syrieana Probably, but I relate it to a book series I'm writing, in which people are dragged into an insane asylum by the residents. Coincidentally, it started with two people.
this sounds like a stormy sky with no rain or thunder over a beach
hi nebulia
yes
Do you just get recomended every song in the universe or what?
you just put this into perfect words
kinda sounds like dgr 2
If anyone wants to know, the reason why this song gives you a beach or sea vibe is because of the steel pans in the background, and steel pans are normally used in tropical places, and they come from Trinidad and Tobago. You can hear it clearly at 4:19.
Yeah it makes it sound so beautiful
Also the use of tango/samba dance rhythms creates an undulating and cyclical pattern to the vocalization and music which feels like waves of rhythm to our ears. Also there’s the reverb added to the voice that feels like audio passing thru water or walls of some kind so you recognize it as “not sounds waves they air but something thicker”.
i thought that that was pretty obvious lol
Hotel:trabago
Yeah
I tried to play this on violin once, got about 30 seconds in and though:
“There’s another 5 minutes of this insane piece. I love it, but I’m not sure I can do this.”
Do you perhaps have a sister that plays the piano, has black hair and is a perfectionist?
@@sproub No, why?
@@atlantic85 omori............
@@sproub i need to play that soon
Help Why'd the omori community randomly get summoned in the replies of some comments here
4:15 the beginning of mikus scream it sounded like she had water in her mouth
Maybe cause she was drowning😃😂 I just realized that's why
@@ms.elsalvador8956 o damn you right
@@RandomPerson-ks3ql DONT YOU DARE DISOBEY ME CORALINE RAHHHH O ARAAH
@@ms.elsalvador8956 DONT YOU *DARE* DISOBEY ME CORALINE RAHHHH O ARAHHH
@@RandomPerson-ks3ql ÆRAHH
Kikuo's addition of the steel pan as a Caribbean person really is a welcoming surprise here we're used to it being played lively and upbeat so I was glad that it was added to add a creepy atmosphere to the song
right!!! i love it so much he is so clever with his music it’s wonderful :-)
Same here!
Sameee, because of how it used here I never thought about using it like this.
i love how their songs include things from other cultures. it could be unintentional though
I wish steel pan was incorporated into more music, it scratches my brain lol
for those of you that came from the friday night funkin animation the part is at 4:15 but i suggest listening to the whole thing because this is a bop
i love that animation
Agree the whole song SLAPS
*insert the girlfriend falling out of the sky and casually playing the drums*
I lost my virginity to that bit in the song
Now playing: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.mp4"
This song really makes you feel like you’re descending into a hole full of things beyond your comprehension and it’s beautiful and surreal
Where's Miku?
*In the hole*
tomska reference 👀
ayyyyy i see what you did there👀
where does she work?
in the hole
I feel proud because I got that reference
in da holE
I showed my sister who hates vocaloid this song, she loved it,,, That's the power Kikuo holds
omg lmao
EY o7
You have to show her more song of Kikuo like "Gomenne Gomenne"
As they should
why the hell would she hate vocaloid
this song sounds so,,, watery. it sounds like octopuses. i’m not sure how to explain it but it gives me ocean vibes.
YES, OCTOPUSES that's it you got it exactly right
it's the steel drums
It’s probably the steel drums
I get it. It feels like Neptune came alive for a couple minutes to remind us that there was a reason sailors prayed for a safe voyage across the ocean while the kids had fun in the shallows
Like popping bubbles
1音も無駄がなくて、時々右と左でキーが違うのも含めてこの曲の全てを愛してます
海外の方のコメントが翻訳されるようになってすごくすごく嬉しい。今まで分からなかった海外の方の感想や考察が見れるからきくおさんの曲のループから抜け出せない。
私はあなたの気持ちを正確に知っています。
私は外人、日本語が習いします。大変良いですね! ごめんね、私の日本語が下手です、wwww
We all agree. Its nice to get a different perspective from you too, and be able to respond as well
인정한다~
It’s nice to see that Japanese people read and translate our comments too!
Kikuo has the amazing power of perfectly describing depression with his lyrics. When you’re depressed, you get stuck in this hole where you can’t bear the live you’re living but you also know you can never achieve the ideal life you’ve built in your head. You befriend others with the same struggles because you understand each other, and you don’t feel so alone, but if none of you is trying to improve all a relationship like that does is drag you all further down…
I remember being in a relationship like that (despite never being diagnosed with a mental illness or anything like that) and I can speak with experience when I say that this shit can fucken hurt sometimes. If you're going to befriend someone with the same struggles, please try to lift each other up and help each other out, maybe even get help for yourself and the other. There are people out there that- although they may _never_ understand what your going through- care about you tons. Always remember you deserve to be loved and appreciated, and you're all worth so much more than you give yourselves credit for
REAL.
I actually had something like that a while back with a friend group. I’ll be honest the good times were great, but nobody was doing anything to improve anything, and eventually everything broke. Wasn’t a fun experience, but it taught me an important lesson, which is the one you talked about.
@@spadescan I currently am in this type of relationship and don't know how to leave it
@@nikat9562 thats easy...stop talking to them.
I feel like kikuo knows something we don't...
Same some of the lyrics to their songs are a bit weird and it kinda seems like they know something we don’t
@@ShutYourDream ohh ok that makes sense
@@koiromii the gomenne gomenne lyrics... Ok,.I don't wanna talk about it.. 🤢
@@Iamcrystalice That one is horrifically surface-level when it comes to its meaning, just putting the box of terror in front of you.
Kikuo has seen it. The realm beyond death. And so he creates these songs, masterpieces from the other realm.
“Hey what’s your favorite style of song?”
“Kikuo.”
“What?”
“Kikuo.”
Mom was curious about the concert I was going to, couldn't end up explaining Kikuo and just told her to google it T.T
FRRRR
Kikuo music is indescribable
Kikuo is kikuo
i really love how kikuo tunes miku -- her voice has a unique kind of breathy, solemn quality,
i know
at first i thought kaai yuki was singing this
Kikuo is a boy
@@SmolGhost13 miku is a girl
@@ruby71406 ohhh i see what you meant now. sorry!
@@SmolGhost13 lol it’s okay
Friendly reminder: Kikous songs are free therapy
@Kokichi On the nintendo ds
I love your pfp it’s so perfect to look at pls never change it.
Also yes you are correct kikous songs are free therapy.
coughs coronalingly in gommene gommene
Yes
@@W0WRLLYB33 MIKU THIS IS BEARY SERIOUS
Kikuo rlly said time to make songs about hyper specific traumas
1:56 for some reason the "samishi samishi" is a lil spooky, miku sounds so real until her voice starts to shake
edit: happy 2024 btw
It's like a little girl's laugh.
@@T.A.Edison FR
Omg i just noticed that
i only had one earbud in so i thought i was going crazy but oh man this song is a different experience w both of them in
It sounded cute in my opinion.
the way this song feels with headphones is insane i love it
I got a nice new pair of headphones and immediately went to this song
SAME
me too 😭
ME TOO HAHAH
SAME LOL
SAMEEE
I love all of Kikuo's music, but this song is their real masterpiece in my opinion. The heavy effects on the music and Miku (especially her "drowning" scream); the way some instruments trail off into lower notes, like a plane in a tailspin; the s t e e l d r u m s; the way some instruments and voices play on only one side of your headphones; the heavy, pounding bass underlying it all; the breathing at the end; and the melody and harmony that drags you under all the while. I can't articulate it very well but this song is like nothing else I've ever heard.
It's also strangely addicting. The drums and the scream are what tie it together for me, and that somewhat happy tune that's in the background constantly. Everything sounds like it echoes.
Fr-
This song is addicting
I totally agree with your opinion this song is so addicting
homestuck
This song is dragging me into the 🕳
this gives off weird post-apocalyptic tropical vibes y'know what i mean
woahhhhhh that's super accurate and I'm concerned because it shouldn't be???
Yes. Far cry 3 type cult vibes
post atropicalyptic
yeah
"tropical" 😭
6年前にこんなら曲人間に制作可能なのか信じられないぐらいかっこいい曲。あなに昇っていくこいつらも人っぽく見えるけど形の定まってない有象無象っぽいイラストでマジでかっこよくて好き。
This song sounds like it’s taking place in the ocean
Ye shes falling a down a hole in the ocean i think?
Under the sea, deep under the sea, you fall and fall, you don't stop falling, you arrive in hell but don't stop falling, there is only darkness after this point and yet you still know that you're falling, even when you lose all ability to comprehend what's happening you still subconsciously know that you're falling. UNDA THA SEA
*_UNDER DA SEA_*
Around the end when Miku screams, it sounds like she's drowning
She might be falling down the bermuda triangle... /hj
この人は本当にすごい。人間が不安になる音程で、それでいてポップに作ってるからすんなり耳に入ってくる。もっと色んな人に聞いてほしいと思う。
The addition of the steelpans is actually what makes this sound creepier, as someone from the Caribbean it actually caught me off guard when I heard it but it adds that extra bit of a creepy atmosphere
Same, I was like hold on, this sounds familiar 🤔 lol
What island? My dad and his side of the family is Caribbean too, and i live in the Caribbean currently.
My favorite thing about this artist is just the way that they utilize both old, underutilized instruments and new technology such as a high production and Vocaloids into their music. It sounds so alien yet familiar like a trap trying to lure you in with familiar sites and smells which is why I think they're more horror themed songs are my favorites. They give me the chills
@@itsjustdewieman I also love how he can have low-instrumental, more quiet songs as well. My personal favourite of this style is “The day I was absent from school.” Its very lonely sounding but i can’t get enough of it. Kikuo for life
SAME LIKE HEARINF THIS TYPA SOUND IN A VOCALoid song had my jaw hanging open like ?!!>?
4:16
大好きゾーン
スチールドラム（？）ってこういう使い方できるんだ…
トロピカルで陽気な感じかもしくは穏やかな感じの曲に使われてる印象だったから（例:アンダーザシーとか）
それが逆に酩酊するような、緩やかに落下していくような印象を作っていてめちゃくちゃ良い この人天才すぎるだろ……………
Yup. Very much.
a. frickin'. bop 😭
ikr- it slaps so hard 😨
Definitely a bop
Ikr😩😩
Fr 😩😩
HELLO THERE AND LOVE YOUR 'love like you' cover
不気味で綺麗だけどなんか赤ちゃんの頃を思い出すような妙な懐かしさがある
はい
I JUST realised that at 5:17 there are two voices tatata-ing, one in the left ear and one in the right, but then at 5:25 there is a breath and the voice in the right ear dissappears and is replaced with steel pans, and then at 5:35 there is a second breath, and the second dissappears also, leaving no more voices.... I'm not sure what it means.... But it's there.... And it's such a small detail, and it's so clever, and I love it.
Edit: are the babies dying out??? The smol mikus??? Do they be taking their final breath?? But they're so cute😭
"the smol mikus" is amazing GN
the "breathing" legit sounded like villagers from minecraft
AAAAAA ONE OF MY EARPHONES ARE DED SO I THOUGHT SONE OF MY FAVOURITE PARTS ARE CUT IFF
kikuo does this a lot. It’s what i love about his music 😌
And you have the harmony and melody playing in different ears at some parts too!
I love how this song slowly gets louder and faster and more voices as well as using a lot of descending notes one after the other , and even using more unique instruments further into the song gives the impression like you’re falling deeper into a hole and you start seeing more scary and surreal things the deeper you go
Oh boy time to listen to: " Funky Depressed ocean music"
😂🤚🏼
😂🤚
🤪✋
😃🙌🏻
😷☝
My favourite part of this song is from 0:00 to 6:09
No way! Mine too
Oh wow same!
I know right? That part is sooo good!
@@ur_fren_noah2642 frfr
Nice
STILL LISTENING ON REPEAT I'M GOING TO GO INSANE I'M LITERALLY FALLING DOWN AND DWELLING IN THIS HOLE
average kikuo fan experience (i'm also falling and dwelling in the hole)
You know the whole light at the end of the tunnel analogy? I think this is kind of like that, but the tunnel is never ending and the light is tauntingly unreachable
@Gemma buenrostro no problem! I didn't think anyone would actually like my little explanation so your comment is very appreciated :)
@Isabella Van Ginkel thank you :))
i love this response, and i would like to add my own thoughts. i think of it more as a lie, that you were told that there would be light at the end of the tunnel and there would be happiness, as well as clarity, but there ends up being no light. just an endless hole where instead of becoming more light and clear (as in mentally understandable; clarification), everything just becomes darker and darker and more jumbled as you continue to fall down a rabbit hole of madness, along with other victims and lured (the people who told you there would be light). this is why the picture gets darker towards the center, and why nothing in the spiral is clear or identifiable. the mind has de-evolved into a state where everything is one and all it wants is more and more and more. ANYWAY i just fell into a deep philosophical haze ahaha
@@Venus-uc3il what a lovely addition! :) I love this alot. Also it's always nice to see army in the comment section of vocaloid songs 💜
@@Amber-yw4ji thank you, how kind!! ☺💜
If you listen this song while wearing earphones, you’ll realize that this is a 3D song whose voice and whispers come from both sides of the earphones ...
Renno Wataru You mean there’s panning? That’s not a particularly groundbreaking or innovative technique. Done all the time. I’ll say this though, it’s sounds great when done well.
yup, not groundbreaking--yet still so awesome when used as efficiently and creatively as this
@「 OKAY 」 but you gotta admit its artfully done.
I believe it's called 8D, is it not?
@@moonstruck6591 there's a better word for it, I believe.. Unfortunately I can't remember it at the moment
(As someone with Japanese as their first language) I always interpreted this song as a sort of a toxic co-morbid relationship.
There’s a LOT of emphasis on “we” “us” and “you” in this song, not “me” or “I” so it’s like a community (the people in the hole already) is talking to you, and the way this song is written, it uses a lot of casual Japanese, insinuating they’re trying to be friendly and convince you that you guys are an equal, the same, so they’re inviting you to be a part of “the hole”.
I think this song is about what it’s like when social rejects make a community, telling eachother that there’s no point in trying to live outside of the “hole” and should just give up and keep falling down the hole. Basically it’s about a toxic echo chamber and how they can drag you down with them.
Edit: I know it’s a weird example, but browsing incel forums is an eerily similar experience to listening to the lyrics on this song. them isolating from “normies” and spouting toxic and self deprecating nonsense in their echo chamber to pull people further into inceldom with their crazy rhetoric.
Edit 2: I also think the distorted ocean music symbolizes that "the hole" is these people's twisted "paradise" or "oasis", if you will. But simultaneously they are drowning in their own paradise (as heard with miku's drowning scream)
That makes a lot of sense! I thought something along the same lines too, and have seen a lot of this phenomenon in friend groups! :O
@@dotsubmcdoodle2959 i have too! It's just a toxic echo chamber of like-minded people haha
The third paragraph is exactly what I couldn't put into words, though, I interpereted it more as two young kids in that situation philoshising about life in that stage. Though I'm more hopefull because "we can't be in this world and we can't be in this world" means they don't feel at home in either so they might move on from the hole when they get better.
oh i love this interpretation! i often don’t like the interpretations of a lot of kikuo songs because they’re often too shallow or too focused on making a strict timelined “story” to them, but i think this really hits the nail on the head of what it could be. good one! :D
this is such a good interpretation omg
初見で聴いて「ぼくらはあなたの遊んだ砂場の中で擦り傷だらけです」って歌詞の表現ヤバすぎて巻き戻しちゃった。すごいよやっぱり。
i wonder how Kikuo feels that most of their audience are English speakers lol
Probably fine with tbh.
hopefullu honored
No bitches?
Hello
No bitches?☹️🤨
きくおさんの曲って何でこう心臓の奥底から不安が湧き上がってくるような、でもめちゃめちゃ綺麗な感じがするんだろう
I see things in the picture but I can't recognise anything i'm upset
Before this comment I thought they were cats but now I'm upset too.
Maybe that was their intention to do that. Maybe they wanted to draw a confuseing picture on purpouse. Maybe they wanted to make it in a way that everyone sees something differently in it.
It kind of looks like fish
I think they're people dragging each other in the hole.
they don't really have any kind of form.
maybe so that it would seem more like a mass
And the harder you strain to recognize something the less you see 🤣
全体的に幾つもの声が重なっててそれが沢山の夢が混ざって一つになっている夢みたいで心地が良い
this song could b about about toxic relationships in general. two miserable people exacerbating their sadness together, it happens all the time in friendships or relationships. the image looks like a spiraling river of styx, kind of similar to how it was portrayed in disney's hercules. they feel neither alive nor dead and their emotions are so intense that they can't always identify them. toxic people often want others to feel the same sadness and loneliness as they do, that's why they're always trying to drag someone else down with them. it's an endless negative feedback loop, but that's all they're familiar with.
I heard it was about dealing with an alocohloic addiction a while ago
holy shit im back after 7 months and u got me thinking again
_"If I'm going down, _*_you're coming with me."_*
It can be applied to a lot of things. So... think of it what you will.
@@underagechildgaming9938 I guess everybody can give to the song their own meaning, which is cool.
This is a groovy mental breakdown of a song.
My sis was laughing in the background after the beat dropped and it made me realize how any noise can fit really well into kikuos songs
De hecho hay un tiktok donde hace una pequeña música con un video de un bebé jajaj
(No se ingles Xd)
@@fxd894 i complete agree, mucha gracias pizza bueno hola for real
Fart with reverb.
kara kara kara no kara proves your point really well i think
*BIG HAMMER CLANK DROP*
as someone with several chronic sleep disorders (insomnia, narcolepsy) who has incredibly vivid dreams and maladaptive daydreams, and has a hard time connecting to the real world, this song sounds like my daily life. I’m floating through, in a half catatonic state, barely registering anything around me and seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. My mind, the people inside it, and sleep are calling me in the back of my head at all times. During the night, the only time I’m wide awake, my thoughts pull me in and drag me to my knees. It’s a spiral. I’m trapped here.
I hope you find a healthy way to cope with that, and if you wanna rant, i am very open to listening/reading it, i like reading/listening to people's trauma/problems-
i struggle with extremely vivid dreams that feel so real and maladaptive daydreaming too i understand how you feel
How do you have both insomnia and narcolepsy at the same time?! That sucks! I hope you manage to get some pills that fix it or at least something that calms it down.
1812
16th of August 2024
@@helenaborgespeixoto7598 I’ve been on pills since childhood and they do help. they kind of affect each other bc I sleep too much during the day to be able to sleep at night and not sleeping at night makes me sleepy during the day
(Edited)
I want to share this with you:
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16
You are not alone, there is hope
✞♡
i just noticed that
The trick is to add eyes into the mess so people identity an eye and then match a pattern with it instinctively
I see a fish, my mom and a dot
Ah, yes, like that one image that you can't name any objects on. The one people say that's what a stroke feels like lol its very impressive yes
They look like giraffes
listening to this with headphones, it feels like there's multiple mikus all convincing me to fall into the hole with them because of how the music alternates from one ear to other, like they're all around me asking me to join. I feel a lot of the spite and gluttony of being in a hole-dwelling life like I used to when I listen to this, and it comforts me.
Might as well get in the hole-dwelling mood
you want me to come with you in the hole?
FUCK YEAH IM COMING TO THE HOLE *JUMPS IN WITH ALL MY LIFE-*
im not even wearing headphones and i can still hear it alternating 😭
fr like just listening to it on headphones is a whole another level
That's because miku is behind you, around you, next to you.
This is one of the most difficult songs to make an interpretation due all the japanese culture and budism references so I Made a research
At first It describes two people and
they somehow end dying, that it's a fact because they mentioned they fell in "Naraka" after.
that one place that in budism, when someone is a Bad person in life is send to Some type of "Hell" when death comes and it's appareance is in form of network of CAVES and there are some monsters that tortures the ones that fall there(remember the song it's called pitiful cave)
When the songs says "You and me, forever and always, be the same" it means they Will be trapped in Naraka forever and probably they know that they two were bad people and they are not gonna change
They saw more people fall too, as the lyrics said
Then literaly the song is about the experience of falling and being trapped in the hell of budism lore (remember that a great parcentage of japanese people are into budism and shintoism)
P.S sorry, english is not my mother tongue
It could be a metaphor, using being trapped in Naraka and comparing it to a toxic relationship. Pulling other people into your toxicity.
The reason I think so is because Kikuo usually makes songs about the dark side of peoples minds. So that would fit with the message they put in other songs
So i was qurious and looked deeper in to Naraka's.İ'm in complete shock.İm NOT hating on Budism,i respect all religions.But the things i read were blood curdling.İ will not be able to sleep tonight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)#:~:text=Naraka%20(Sanskrit%3A%20%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%3B%20Pali,%22)%20or%20%22purgatory%22.&text=Physically%2C%20Narakas%20are%20thought%20of,human%20world)%20into%20the%20earth.
This is where i read it.Good Luck
I would like to say that the "forever" part doesn't necessarily mean for all eternity but because of how the deeper levels of naraka work that for a person to be released from that hell may take millions if years (the kalpa measurement system they used) and it seems like an eternity to those who are suffering.
@@chelronin7843 as another comments theory went-
Instead of one pulling the other, they're just pulling each other down.
So a toxic relationship falling farther into despair.
Life's been hard on both of them and they turned to each other, but the problem is they arent the best "support pillars" for one another.
They lie to themselves for a while that everything is okay, that they're besties, and that their relationship is healthy etc.
But eventually ig they finally admit that it is "wrong" (as kind of stated in one lyric). But they continue falling bc they be "so lonely", and they think it's impossible to get to a better place. This also goes along with a more recent reply in this thread about how they dont actually have to be "falling forever"/ "in hell forever", but it seems that way.
Damn, this was the exact song that kept me feeling anxious. This is the one and only song that left me with goosebumps throughout the entire listen.
Kikuo is a brilliant producer. His main feature is the presentation of unusual, harsh, depressing thoughts, but damn, the way he presents it makes me sit without thinking for many minutes. With his works he was able to create worlds in which there would never be truth. But nowhere else can there be as many guesses, secrets and thoughts as in Kikuo’s songs.
I feel like I'm weightless, being wrapped up in bubbles and pulled downwards to drown in an abyss as the song carries on. This song is pure magic. Kikuo never disappoints
Just wanted to say it's really nice to see a Ujung in a vocaloid comment section~ You're awesome :D
@@pasteltaeseob9821 Aaaaah thanks!!! Same to you! 💚
WJSN Activist yeess
it's a mere illusion...
well said!
Sometimes I feel like Kikuo's music is like Junji Ito's art made into songs.
but even more terrifying
Trang Vương uzumaki who? Never heard of her-
I think Uzumaki is one of Junji Ito's horror mangas which is about spiral stuff.
that's one (very accurate) way to put it
this is the new "this art reminds me of tim burton" meme, ugh
What a beautiful time to live in, when I can effortlessly listen to music made by a completely different culture, speaking a fundamentally different language on the other side of the planet.
Uhh the comfort and enjoyment is so gooood today aren't it?
This is the world we find ourselves in, lads, we might as well appreciate what we can.
yeah
slay
who needs to understand words when the story and feelings are so perfectly expressed through melody alone?
you know kikuo is dropping a banger when he brings out the super danganronpa 2 goodbye despair steel drums
YO DANGANRONPA MENTIONED????
DANGANRONPA MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️
DANGANRONPA MENTIONED ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
DANGANRONPA MENTION 💯💯💯
@@Xx-PotatoChips-xX YESSS
You are one the best horror music creators I've ever witnessed ever.
The idea of being forced to meld with thousands of different unrecognizable beings, having your conciousness split apart and unable to even understand or fully comprehend anything anymore, slowly drifting untill "you" no longer exist.
Junji Ito levels of scary.
Whats worse is they seem to be celebrating their lonely chaotic existence, displaying an unstable denial, forced to embrace it and revel in the pain.
The first part literally describes the Ancient Greeks "afterlife": everybody was nobody, everybody melted to be a mass of indistinguishable souls. Nobody was someone, because what they were was gone the moment they died.
The moment I heard this song, I first thought of Itou Junji as well, one if my most favourite mangakas ngl ♥️
for a reason that i don't understand i feel so much comfort listening to this song, i'm a spanish speaker, srry for the weird english
@@ranasmisticas your english is great!!! :)
You guys seriously have problems
このエコーがかかった声の影響で耳から聞こえてるんじゃなくてテレパシーみたいな何かで直接脳内に語りかけられてる感じめちゃくちゃ好き
(語彙力くんは死にました)
いや、全然分かる、分かるよ。要するにやばいんだろ
わかる(わかる)
きくおさんに吸われちゃったか。
仲間がいるよ。
as someone who is an extreme introvert, this song feels like the absolute insanity that comes from extreme isolation. Filtering everyone out, only letting in those who let you self destruct. Maybe even just the way people talk to themselves after this extreme isolation, going deeper and deeper into the loneliness that you cant tell whats real or not. "were the same, the same, the same, are we not?" makes me think that its one person who has madeup friends, a madeup world, that keeps beckoning them back into the hole. Back into isolation. Like its so much better to be alone than anything else.
the internet is the made up world
you called me out on my agoraphobia
omo-
@@tastemailcake WAS NOT MY INTENTION BUT I REALLY DO RELATE TO SUNNY LMFAO
@@Moopiemilk good luck on opening the door, when you have to
I’ve recently been dangerously obsessed with this song to the point that I think I’ve spent about 6-7 hours every day listening to it on repeat. It’s too good.
Headphone users are definitely having the time of their lives rn (me included)
I am. Also I love your pfp😩
@@ChronicallyTweaking thanks 💃🏾
@@erisweirdpalace Nihihi
Beautiful pfp
Mukuro as frog poggers
Everybody gangsta till you listen to this while reading uzumaki. 10/10 would recommend.
Junji Ito destroys my ability to sleep for several days, every time
we gayin' is it like junji ito or is it junji ito
O nvm I know now
I'm going to do that right now.....
That's exactly what it reminded me of when i saw the thumbnail..
Kikuo : *Release a new song *
Every single fan : *It's big brain time*
Y A S
*your php matches with it* (go pico go pico 😈😈😈)
@@8rsueue74 OMG YOUR PHP TOOO
*Casually makes a creepy/edgy animation with this music playing in the background*
FRRR
ちょっと動いてるのがじわじわと吸い込まれそうで好き
Kikuo reminds me of Junji Ito. Their music is like, unsettling but not because of creepy music or anything. It sounds innocent but there's always this darkness in there. And Junji Ito makes stuff creepy by presenting everyday things that have this other worldly twist. I'd love if they collaborated someday like for a music video.
The art reminds me of uzumaki
The Duo of Fear
Oh god that collab would be utterly terrifying
If kikou and junji ito works together at art etc.. my life will complete
They remind me of Steampianist.
My friend was talking to me and I said “give me a second I’m listening to my TRÃÛMÁTÏŽÎŃG TÁÑGÖ”
Lmao Traumatizing Tango, ima call it that from now on
I like to call this the terror tango 🙃
your friend is correct
LMAO
But is marimba
KIKUO SONGS🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Me
me fr
Me 🛐🛐🛐🛐
So real 🙏🙏🙏🙏
so true
二一ゼロのとこで実際に目閉じると寝れそうになるから催眠用に重宝してます✨
2:51 one of the best parts of any song ever the steel drums is one of the coolest uses of an instrument I've ever heard been given to a song
I agree, the steel drums add a whole 'nother level to the song, I feel like I would be less kikou without them tbh, especially at 4:07 when the beat drops and miku screams, it makes me feel an emotion I've never felt before, like I'm dancing with a ghost in a well, the steel drums are an amazing touch in this peice of art
I like to think that, because a lot of of phrases in the song are quieter the second time they're said, it's indicative of an echo rather than a second person speaking. Because the narrator/singer is in a hole, their voice is echoing. But really, they're all alone.
And maybe because they're going deeper into the hole. Getting farther and farther from the surface
@@sankyumiku and eventually , they find a patch of water , which seems to be rising . It seems to be an escape method , but as the water rises above their head , they realize that the water is pulling them further down , rather than up .
back after 7 months and now my brain is fucked again omfg
@@minecraftcrab4707 oh my god.
I WASN'T READY FOR THE BEAT DROP
ImpureElegance SAME
Indeed.
I was
nobody is, it gets you when you less expect and is beautiful
it dropped harder than my grades when I skipped school-
辛くなってはここに戻ってきて、きくおさんの世界に引きづりこまれる
I love how this song feels like you are constantly falling, since it uses a lot of descending notes in a row and slowing-down rhytms. Constant panning and repeating words give illusion of nausiating spin, as well as occasional detune.
yahoo 500th like
it makes the art really fit
THIS DESCRIBES IT PERFECTLY
WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE HOLE WITH THIS ONE 🗣📣🔥🔥🔥
HELPP THIS IS SO FUNNY
PLEAAALSJWODJWKKDS
lol
WE ARE NO LONGER DWELLING 🗣💯‼🔥
@@ver1son WHERE
Listening to this many times made me realise that the song could be about how some Japanese workers live and how they might see each other as "friends" trapped inside the same "cave". I think of the cave as Japan itself or a bar where everyone goes to drink after work.
Thinking more of the bar; since they can't escape their demanding jobs or Japan, they just drink more and more, going deeper into the hole in either debt or drunkness. Once they begin to be more open, they talk about their dreams that can't come true, how they feel, etc. Eventually, they discover their lives are quite alike and begin calling each other "friends" or "partners", then they start trying to drag more people into their "group" ("Are you one of us?"), or asking some friends for "secrets" ("What is the password for this world of holes?"); because more friends mean more oportunities to escape (have important contacts and you'll reach farther). In the end, they continue this "ritual" for many, many years, not reaching anywhere outside their simple lifes, just falling further inside the "cave".
They keep drinking ("It's so wrong, so wrong") but they have no one else that would keep them company; even if they don't feel connected at all to each other ("It's so lonely, so lonely") and the only things they share are a shitty life.
wow
I thought this as well!!
Deshido
Someone animate this cuz I can't
I am going to work in Japan and this is scaring me
耳から脳を伝い全身にぐるぐる一つの世界が入ってくるような誰か一人の、長いようでとても短い夢を一緒に見ているような、
そんな奇妙な感覚に囚われ
この曲の沼に足を捕らわれ
めぐみんに俺の心を虜われました。
もうこの沼から抜け出せそうにありません。
I like to listen to this song whilst skateboarding because it reminds me that 1 pebble could end my existence
edit: the pebble claimed me as a victim yesterday... rip my arm
THIS COMMENT 😭
4:15 the revenge of the pebble
HELP
BAIAHAHAISJNS
@@helloilovemycat I CNAT BREAHTE